The family of the slained officer
of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) in Bawku in the Upper East
Region, has appealed to the leadership of the GIS to collaborate with
other security agencies to ensure that justice was served in relation to
the killing of the officer. 
The family says it is
saddened at the loss of their beloved son and expressed the hope that
the GIS will take steps and liaise with other security agencies to bring
the perpetrators of the heinous and barbaric act to book.
Speaking on behalf of the
family, Cephas Motey, a younger brother of the deceased appealed to the
GIS to ensure that the body of the officer was brought back to Accra
with dispatch to enable the family to fast-track the funeral planning
process.
Mr Motey, a lawyer spoke on
behalf of the family when the Comptroller General Of the GIS, Kwame
Asuah Takyi led the leadership of the GIS to call on the family to
express their condolences, reports Graphic Online’s Benjamin Xornam
Glover from Klagon in Greater Accra.Philip Motey, the
immigration officer was killed in Bawku in the Upper East Region last
Monday. He was in a vehicle with two other immigration officers when
unknown assailants pounced on them and fired indiscriminately into their
vehicle.
Motey was pronounced dead on arrival at the Bawku Presby hospital.
The two other officers are receiving treatment at the hospital, one in critical condition at Tamale and the other at Bawku.
The deceased, an Assistant
Inspector of Immigration, 42, was in the company of Eric Ayibiya, 30,
and Laurence Afari, 42, when they were shot multiple times while moving
in a blue sedan vehicle in Bawku by the unknown gunmen.
The three officers
stationed at different border posts, were on their way to the Bawku
Township to buy food when the incident happened. The gunmen reportedly
surfaced and shot into the vehicle and bolted after the incident.
The Comptroller-General,
accompanied by Members of the National Immigration Management Committee
speaking during a visit to the family house of the deceased on Thursday,
April 6, 2023, gave the assurance that the GIS will liaise with the
relevant security agencies to find the perpetrators of the crime, so
they face the law.
He said the leadership of the Immigration Service would ensure that justice is served. The entire officers of the service are sad at the incident and are calling on management to take decisive action to ensure that justice prevail, he said.
Mr Takyi disclosed that
because the deceased died in active service, the leadership of the
service would consider recruiting qualified relatives of the deceased
family into the service to compensate for the loss.
Mr Takyi on behalf of the
GIS and in line with custom offered a cash donation of GHc5,000 and 40
packs of water to the family as part funeral preparations.
Calm person
The younger brother of the
deceased, Cephas Motey, a lawyer, described the late officer as a
selfless, calm, dedicated person who was aspiring to become a lawyer and
had even completed his LLB course and was waiting to write the entrance
examination for the professional part of the legal education.
“He would have become the third lawyer in our family,” he said, adding that their 89-year-old father and 79-year-old mother, who incidentally have had an experience working in the northern parts of the country, have been left devastated.
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